Spring
2011

February
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• February 7, 2011
  Joshua Folk - University of British Columbia
  "Quantum Interference in Graphene: Old Tricks to Decipher a New Material'' [Abstract]
  Host: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
  
  
  
• February 10, 2011 - 11:00 Duboc Room, 4-331- SPECIAL SEMINAR
  Jing Xia - California Institute of Technology
  "Topological phases and their competition with symmetry-breaking orders" [Abstract]
  Host: Young Lee
  
  
• February 14, 2011 - 10:00 Pappalardo Room 4-349 - SPECIAL SEMINAR
  Will Greenleaf - Harvard University
  "Observing transcription with high-resolution optical tweezers, and sequencing DNA with reversibly sealable microreactors" [Abstract]
  Host: Mehran Kardar
  
  
• February 14, 2011 - 12:00 Duboc Room, 4-331- SPECIAL SEMINAR
  Greg Fuchs - University of California, Santa Barbara
  “High-Speed Manipulation of Single Electronic and Nuclear Spins in Diamond” [Abstract]
  Host: Young Lee
  
  
• February 15, 2011 - 11:00 Broad Institute Auditorium Room 7CC - SPECIAL SEMINAR
  Stirling Churchman - University of California, San Francisco
  "Visualizing transcription at nucleotide resolution by nascent transcript sequencing" [Abstract]
  Host: Broad Institute/Mehran Kardar
  
  
• February 16, 2011 - 12:00 Duboc Room, 4-331 - SPECIAL SEMINAR
  Mark Rudner - Harvard University
  “Topological Transitions in Driven and Dissipative Quantum Transport” [Abstract]
  Host: Young Lee
  
  
• February 17, 2011 - 1:30 Duboc Room, 4-331 - SPECIAL SEMINAR
  Eleni Katifori - Rockefeller University
  "Design principles in the plant kingdom: Loops, optimality and the architecture of leaf veins" [Abstract]
  Host: Mehran Kardar
  

• February 22, 2011 - 11:00 Duboc Room, 4-331 - SPECIAL SEMINAR
  Liang Fu - Harvard University
  "Topological Superconductor and Majorana Fermion" [Abstract]
  Host: Young Lee
  
  
• February 24, 2011 - 11:00 Duboc Room, 4-331 - SPECIAL SEMINAR
  Cheng Cen - University of Pittsburgh
  "Oxide Nanoelectronics on Demand" [Abstract]
  Host: Young Lee
  
  
• February 28, 2011 - 12:00 Duboc Room, 4-331 - SPECIAL SEMINAR
  Suckjoon Jun - Harvard University
  "Chromosome, cell cycle and entropy (or: Why I love E. coli)" [Abstract]
  Host: Mehran Kardar
  
  
  

March
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• March 1, 2011 - 11:00 Duboc Room, 4-331 - SPECIAL SEMINAR
  Darrick Chang - California Institute of Technology
  "Quantum Optomechanics: New Paradigms and Applications" [Abstract]
  Host: Young Lee
  
  
  
• March 1, 2011 - 2:00 Duboc Room, 4-331 - SPECIAL SEMINAR
  Jeremy England - Princeton University
  "Life on the Edge: The Physics of Allosteric Conformational Change in Globular Protein Domains" [Abstract]
  Host: Mehran Kardar
  
  
• March 2, 2011 -12:00 Duboc Room, 4-331 - SPECIAL SEMINAR
  Zheng Wang - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  "Unconventional Electromagnetic Scattering" [Abstract]
  Host: Young Lee
  
  
• March 3, 2011 - 11:00 Duboc Room, 4-331 - SPECIAL SEMINAR
  Rajamani Vijayaraghavan - University of California, Berkeley
  “Information processing at the quantum limit: Superconducting quantum bits and amplifiers” [Abstract]
  Host: Young Lee
  
  
• March 7, 2011 - 12:00 Duboc Room, 4-331 - SPECIAL SEMINAR
  Yulin Chen - Stanford University
  “Visualization of Electronic Structures in Topological Quantum Materials and Advances on Electron Spectroscopy” [Abstract]
  Host: Young Lee
  
  
• March 10, 2011 - 11:00 Duboc Room, 4-331 - SPECIAL SEMINAR
  Shinsei Ryu - University of California, Berkeley
  “Ten-fold classification of topological insulators and superconductors” [Abstract]
  Host: Young Lee
  
  
  
• March 14, 2011 - 12:00 Duboc Room, 4-331 - SPECIAL SEMINAR
  M. Lisa Manning - Princeton University
  "How Does Surface Tension Emerge From Structure in Biological Tissues?” [Abstract]
  Host: Mehran Kardar
  
  
• March 15, 2011 - 11:00 Duboc Room, 4-331 - SPECIAL SEMINAR
  Tzu-Chieh Wei - University of British Columbia
  “Valence-bond ground states of isotropic quantum antiferromagnets for universal quantum computation” [Abstract]
  Host: Young Lee
  
  
• March 21, 2011 Spring Break
  
  
• March 28, 2011
  
  

April
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• April 4, 2011
  B.J. Kim - Argonne National Lab CANCELED
  "Novel Mott Phenomena Induced by Relativistic Spin-Orbit Coupling in Iridates'' [Abstract]
  Host: Senthil Todadri
  
  
• April 15, 2011 - FRIDAY 12:00PM - SPECIAL CHEZ PIERRE SEMINAR - Room 6C-333
  Konstantin Matveev - Argonne National Laboratory
  "Equilibration of Luttinger liquid and conductance of quantum wires" [Abstract]
  Host: Leonid Levitov
  
  
• April 18, 2011 Patriot's Day
  
  
• April 20, 2011 - Wednesday Chez Pierre Seminar - 12:00 Duboc Room - 4-331
  Steve Simon - Oxford University
  "Interferometry in an Imperfect World" [Abstract]
  Host: Patrick Lee
  
  
  
• April 25, 2011
  Eugene Sukhorukov - University of Geneva
  "Theory of fractional quantum Hall interferometers" [Abstract]
  Host: Leonid Levitov
  

May
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• May 2, 2011
  David Cobden - University of Washington
  "Adsorption on Individual Carbon Nanotubes'' [Abstract]
  Host: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
  
  
• May 9, 2011
  Chris Regan - University of California - Los Angeles
  “Space quantization and the graphene transistor” [Abstract]
  Host: Ray Ashoori